Cycle-saddle.



No. 823,916. PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906. J. B. BROOKS & J. HOLT.

CYCLE SADDLE.

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CYCLE SADDLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6. 1905.

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JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, OF BIRMINGHAM, AND JOHN HOLT, OF ASTON,

ENGLAND.

CYCLE-SADDLE.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Application filed November 6, 1905- Serial No. 286,163.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN BOULTBEE BRooKs, residing at Criterion Works,Great Charles street, Birmingham, and JOHN HOLT, residing at 97Frederick road, Aston, near Birmingham, England, subjects of the King ofGreat Britain, have invented. certain new while at the same time theproper shape ofthe seat is preserved, lateral stretching or spreading isprevented, and an effective support for the load is provided.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an under side plan of acycle-saddle constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is across-section of the said saddle, taken upon the dotted line 00, Fig. 1,and looking toward the cantle end. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section uponthe dotted line 00 Fig. 1, while Fig. 4 is a section of the after part,taken diagonally upon the dotted line 00 Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an under sideplan, partly in horizontal section, of a saddle provided with a systemof tension seat-supports, showing a modification. Fig. '6 is an endView, partly in vertical section, of a portion of the construction asillustrated by Fig. 5.

The same reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in the saidfigures.

In the particular arrangement represented in the said figures the seat10 is carried between a cantle or back plate 11 and a peakplate 12,supported by an underframing 13 in the usual way; but the leather isleft in a moderately-tensioned state, so that its natural softness andpliability are preserved. The cantle-plate has attached to its middlepart a bracket-like stretcher member 14 of the seat-sustaining system,which consists of an arm or tongue fashioned from spring-wire and isarranged to extend forwardly in an ap proximately horizontal planeunderneath the 'saddle to such a distance thatits free end will come atabout the center of the body part of the seat, while upon each side ofthe said stretcher member is disposed a strap, band,

or like supporting medium 15, preferably'of leather, and directed fromthe cantle-plate obliquely inward toward the inner or yield, ing ends 16of the stretcher, to which they are collectively connected or coupled byforming the said ends into loops or eyes to which the inner extremitiesof the straps are riveted or otherwise attached, while their outer endsare riveted in between the extremities of the cantle-plate and theleather. With such an arrangement when the saddle is loaded the flexiblestretcher member (or combined stretcher and coupling member) and theoblique supporting media of the triangulated system are depressed andthe said stretcher is transformed into an active spring which operatesin unison with ties or connected series of supportingstraps for flexiblysustaining or upholding the body part of theseat, while still preservingthe shape of the same and conserving the natural softness of theleather.

The flexible stretcher member may be made in the form of a steel tongue,and instead of anchoring its outer end immovably to the cantle-plate itmay be adjustably attached thereto by screw connections, which admit ofits movement in the longer direction of the saddle for the purpose oftensioning or Patented June 19, 1906. i

stretching the diagonal supporting-straps or the like. (See Figs. 5 and6.)

18 is the stretcher member, whose free inner end supports and linkstogether the inner extremities of the pair of diagonally orobliquely-disposed seat-supporting straps 19, while the outer ends ofthe branches or sides of the said stretcher are made to take or socketinto plain holes 20 in a pair of adjustingscrews 21, which are engagedwith the wormed holes 22 of a pair of brackets 23, secured to thecantle-plate, the arrangement being such that when the screws are wormedinwardly through the brackets they force the stretcher member (aroundthe plain extremities of' which they freely swivel) inward with them,

and thus tension or tighten up the connected.

ing the latter, and yielding means connected to the inner end of thesaid devices and to the rear portion of the seat.

2. In a cycle-saddle, the combination of a seat, diagonally-directedflexible seat-supporting devices arranged under the rear portion 0 thesaid seat, and yielding bracket means connected to the inner ends of thesaid devices and to the seatcantle, the outer ends of the devices beingalso attached to the cantle.

3. In a cycle-saddle, the combination of a seat, means for upholding theseat-leather from the under side and consisting of diag-

